Those who have an iPhone or iPod touch will find the Mac App Store very similar to the iTunes App Store. Some of the same applications which have been found on mobile devices, like Angry Birds, even showed up in the new app store when it was launched.

In fairness, Apple has always had a Mac app store, it just wasn’t online. Any customer walking into an Apple Store would find at least one wall lined with boxed retail software. That’s the method I used to buy my first Mac program, but with the Mac App Store becoming popular it seems that the days of boxed software in the Apple Store may be numbered.

MacRumors has heard rumblings that boxed software will be pulled from Apple Stores. As proof, the site points to the process store employees walk a customer through to setup their new Mac. Besides showing you some of the basic pointers of owning a Mac, and setting up an email and iTunes account, they will also walk you through using the Mac App Store.

The speculation is that in removing the boxed software Apple can have more room to sell accessories for iPads or iPhones which have more profit built into them.